# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第十四条 (Article 14)

This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-14. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp.

- Law: 中小企業基本法 (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act), 昭和三十八年法律第百五十四号
- English title "Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第十四条 (Article 14)（創造的な事業活動の促進） — address `art-14`
- Text in force since: 2026-01-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-14
- e-Gov law ID: 338AC0000000154 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page.
- Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it.
- Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below.

Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text
below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and
says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this
site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names.
They are never merged and never substituted for one another.

---

### 第十四条（創造的な事業活動の促進） — Promotion of Creative Business Activities
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-14</sup>

  **第一項**  国は、中小企業の創造的な事業活動を促進するため、商品の生産若しくは販売又は役務の提供に係る著しい新規性を有する技術に関する研究開発の促進、創造的な事業活動に必要な人材の確保及び資金の株式又は社債その他の手段による調達を円滑にするための制度の整備その他の必要な施策を講ずるものとする。
  <sup>art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-14/par-1</sup>
  In order to promote creative business activities of small and medium-sized enterprises, the State is to take the necessary measures, including the promotion of research and development of technology having significant novelty relating to the production or sale of products or the provision of services, and the development of a system to facilitate the securing of human resources necessary for creative business activities and the procurement of funds by means such as stocks or corporate bonds.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

---

## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業基本法 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/338AC0000000154/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-11-06
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 中小企業基本法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/822), retrieved 2026-10-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-basic-act-20261106T173426-002, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06